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that of the great Sultan Solyman, but even this pavement is now almost worse than nothing. Wherever the Osmanli has trod, devastation and ruin mark his steps, civilization and the arts have fled, and made room for barbarism, and the silence of the desert and the tomb. " Where the Sultan's horse has trod, there grows no grass," is a Turkish proverb and a fatal truth. The great city of - Page 188
la Franque by Sultan Selim: their materiel is extremely good. On the 2d of May, while I was employed sketching, sitting down on the roadside, over the plain of Dolma Batchi, a young Turkish female, followed by a black slave and some children, came up to me, and after - Page 139
the picturesque-looking Greek and Jew venders of trinkets and bonbons, gliding about; the Oriental facade and porticoes of the kiosk, the green hills on each side of the valley, the blue sky and bright sun, formed altogether a scene of fairy land, or Eastern romance, and will never be effaced from my memory. - Page 148
2 than the other, forming so many little cascades over their projecting edges, which are tastefully indented like the lips of a scollop shell. The soft murmuring sound of these beautiful rills, added to the gentle breathing of the zephyrs through the agitated leaves of the fine trees, the splendid groups of contemplative Turks, seated near the stream, - Page 147
with fine large black expressive eyes, and arched brows : she smoked her chibouque, and ate bonbons, while she talked to us. We endeavoured to prevail upon another of her companions to unveil: she at first excused herself, and expressed fear of being observed; at length - Page 168
long while over my shoulder and talking to me, placed herself quite in front of me, and unveiled herself. I hardly dared to take any notice of this - Page 140
Chalki, and Principo. We landed first upon Chalki, (copper, so called from that metal abounding there,) and wandered over hills covered with arbutus, myrtle, gum-cistus, wildsage, thyme, and a variety of sylvan flowers, to a - Page 160
and western fronts, on the frieze underneath the portico, are still sharp and prominent, and defy the hand of time, of Turk, and of civilized spoliators. The roof appears to have been repaired ; and upon the marble pavement is the tombstone of Sir J. Watson, an English baronet. The fane of the - Page 303
monastery of Greek Papas. Here, over the sill of the door, is the tombstone of Sir Edward Barton. I have copied the inscription, which I insert below. EDUARDO BARTON ILLUSTRISSIMO SER RUENTISSIMO. - Page 161
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